ancient rome

When Julius Caesar arrived in Egypt, he walked into a civil war between the country’s new co-rulers: Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra. The romance between Caesar and [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here, as promised, are some flute metal jams: Our modern sources for this episode include: Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life Adrian Goldsworthy’s [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our modern sources for this episode included: The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts Adrian [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here are some of the important people in this story. Crassus: You’ve been Crassus rolled. Pompey: Always with the widow’s peak. Caesar: Cicero: [...Read More...]

After an epic quarter-life crisis, Julius Caesar returned to Rome and started to kick things up a notch—winning honors, elections, and the love of the public. But as his [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First off, here’s the Baby Shark song. BOOM, now it’s in your head. You’re welcome. Also, here’s Mountain to Move: So here are some [...Read More...]

Julius Caesar came of age in a Rome where severed heads hung in the Rostra, bodies choked the Tiber, and murderous mobs stalked the streets. Even at 16, this was [...Read More...]

Of the six children of Germanicus, Agrippina the Younger is the last woman standing. Both savvier than her siblings and more ruthless, she quickly rises to stratospheric [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First, we have to share this incredible painting of the collapsible boat that Nero had built to assassinate Agrippina. It didn’t work because Agrippina [...Read More...]

With their brother Caligula dead, the two remaining Germanicus children–Julia Livilla and Agrippina–are called home from exile. The new emperor, their uncle [...Read More...]